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A new “shorts” from the Dirtbag diaries my favorte podcast by a long long long shot!!

Three days from the end of the trip, I started to panic,” writes Emma Walker. “I still didn’t know what to do with my summer, let alone the rest of my life. Inspiration, as I’d imagined it, hadn’t struck. Now, I had to face the realization that I didn’t have an exit strategy. This had been it, and it would inevitably end.”

What would you do if the council ordered the death of one of your favorite trees, and then made you pay for it? That’s what happened to one man in Redondo Beach, California recently, but although he lost the battle, he most certainly won the war.

Each year, millions of visitors flock to the Grand Canyon to witness its magnitude and sheer, awe-inspiring size. However, there’s a phenomenon that few people get to experience that’s called “cloud inversion.” Filmmaker and co-founder of the Skyglow Project, Harun Mehmedinovic says, “In what resembles something between ocean waves and fast clouds, the Grand Canyon is completely obscured by fog, making the visitors feel as if they are walking on clouds.” Kaibob Elegy is a part of Skyglow’s quest to explore the effects of light pollution on our wild spaces, and damn, it’s incredible.

“I didn’t think I could strangle it with my bare hands,” Rachel Borch remembers thinking, but holding it under the water might do the trick. “With my thumb in its mouth, I just pushed its head down into the muck.” CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story misidentified who collected […]